Gadsden Purchase

When

1853

Kind

Treaty

Coordinates

33.10° N, 110.60° W

Description

land purchase from Mexico by the United States

Land purchased from Mexico by the United States in 1854

The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is the acquisition of a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico by the United States from Mexico. The first draft was signed on December 31, 1853, by James Gadsden, US Minister to Mexico, and by Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico. The treaty took effect on June 8, 1854.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys approximately 77,000 km2 of land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Gadsden-Kauf erhalten die Vereinigten Staaten Grenzgebiete zu Mexiko”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “el Gobierno de México vende la Mesilla a los Estados Unidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page